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(No Model.) I H. E. SMITH.

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No. 275,724. y l Patented Apr. 10,l883.

UNITED STATES PAIENT.` OEEICE.

HAMILTON E.' sMITH, OENEW YORK, N. Y.

WASHING-MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of LettersPatent No. 275,724, dated April 10, 1883.

Application filed May 10, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.:

Be it known that I, HAMILTON E. SMITH, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, in the county and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Washing-Machines. of which the following' is a specification.

This invention relates especially to thatclass of washing-machines embodying an outer or suds jacket and a foraminous clothes-drum revolving within the jacket, as shown and described in Letters Patent of the United States granted -to me September 11,1877,No. 195,176.

In the operation of the machine referred to a scum rises to the surface of the water, due to the action of the soap, together with the dirt thereby loosened from the clothes, and if the water discharges only at the bottom of the suds-jacket a portion of the scum remains in the machine. In said machine, moreover, the gearing for imparting motion to the clothesdrum is located outside of the sudsjacket, at one end thereof, and difficulty is had in producing a water-tight joint or bearing for the drum-shaft at that place.

My present invention consists in a provision or means for allowing the overow of the scum from the suds-jacket; also, in the arrangement of the gearing for driving the clothes-drum within the suds-jacket, and in the employment of caps to form the bearings for the drum-shaft, as hereinafter fully described.

This invention isillustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 represents a vertical longitudinal section. Fig. 2 is a plan or top view with part of the machine broken away. Fig. 3 is a vertical cross-section. Fig. 4 is an end view.

Similar letters indicate corresponding parts.

The letter A designates the suds-jacket, B the clothes-drum, and C the shaft carrying the drum, such shaft being in this example made in sections-one at each end of the drum. In one end of the ends-jacket A is formed an overilow-opening, D, and a waste-hole, E, such opening and hole being located respectively at the top and bottom of the jacket. The over flow-opening D is elongated, as indicated in Figs. 2 and 4t, audits length is such thatv when the jacket is lled with waterthe opening is exposed to orincludes approximately the entire surface of the water. Hence any scum rising to the surface of the water can be discharged or floated off through the overflow-opening by simply adding to the water in the suds-jacket, whereby the danger of having said scum remain in the machine on the discharge of the waste Water is obviated.

To the overflow-opening D and wastehole E, respectively, is connected a pipe, D or E', such pipes being also connected together, thus havng a common outlet, and in the waste-pipe E', within or interior of the point of its connection with the overdow-pipe D', is arranged a stop-cock, F, so that by closing this cock the waste-pipe can be shut off without aiecting l the overiow-pipe.

. To the drum-shaft C is fixed a cog-wheel, G, gearingwith a pinion, H, which is fixed to a driving-shaft, I, whence the clothes-drum receives a revolving motion. Said cog-wheel G is located within the solls-jacket A, at the end thereof opposite to the one containingthe overlow-opening D and waste-hole E, and a screen, J ,is preferably placed between the cog-wheel and the clothes-drum. By this arrangement of the cog-wheel G caps K can be used to formor protect the bearings for the drum-shaft G,

which caps are a Asimple and effective contrivauce for producing a water-tight joint between the shaft and the sudsjacket. Said caps K K are fixtures ofthe suds-jacket A, and are preferably made in two sections-one cast with the lower part of the jacket, the latter being made in two parts, and the other secured to the lower section in a suitable manner. The overflow-opening D is Vintended to be used especially in rinsing the clothes; and for the purpose of allowing such opening to be shut-offduring the washing operation the pipe D/ is provided with a stop-cock or plug, O, which in this example is arranged at the upper end of the vertical limb of the pipe, but which may obviously be placed at any other desired point.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The combination, in a washing-machine, of the suds-ja-cket A with the overflow D, havin gits inlet-openin g extended nearly the width of the said jacket, and located near the top of the same, substantially as described.

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2. A washing machine combining in its structure the suds-jacket A, with an ovcrow, D, having its inlet-opening extended nearly tho width of said jacket, and located near the top of the same, the vertical pipe D', connected :it its upper end with the overflow and at its lower end connected with apipe, E', which connects with the lower portion ofthe sudsjacket, and is provided with a cock, F, said members being constructed and organized substantially 1o as described.

1n testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

HAMILTON E. SMITH. Witnesses:

W. HAUFF, GRAS. WAHLERS. 

